Many workers don't want to return to the office. That could help shrink the government.

"If people don't come back to work, come back into the office, they're going to be dismissed," Trump commented last month, referring to federal workers who've grown accustomed to working from home in the years since COVID-19 shuttered many offices.

Many private sector workers have also grown used to living and working far from their employers' offices. In many cases, they do so with their bosses' endorsement- some companies find employees to be happier with greater flexibility, and overhead to be lower with reduced need for office space.

Professional, scientific, and technical services, information, finance and insurance, and management of companies had over 39 percent of their workforce working remotely in 2021 compared with less than 17 percent in 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Across 61 industries, a 1 percent increase in the percentage of remote workers resulted in a 0.08 percentage-point increase in productivity, according to the BLS.

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